Dive Details

Location

False Entrance, Osprey Reef, Coral Sea,

Date

12 September, 2005

Time

3:38pm - 4:19pm

Buddy

Jamie Newman

Seas

Flat

Visibility

20

Duration

41 minutes

Maximum depth

21.2 m

Average depth

12.5 m

Water temperature

24.9°C

Site Map

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides

Low

12:36am

1.36m

High

4:25am

1.56m

Low

10:31am

1.03m

High

5:59pm

2.47m

Species Seen

Species

Common name

Size
(mm)

Number

Fairy Basslet

Purple Anthias

Hawk Anthias

Blue-head Tilefish

Threadfin Butterflyfish

Chaetodon baronessa

Triangular Butterflyfish

Saddled Butterflyfish

Klein's Butterflyfish

Lined Butterflyfish

Ornate Butterflyfish

Dot-and-dash Butterflyfish

Blue-dash Butterflyfish

Chevroned Butterflyfish

Yellow Longnose Butterflyfish

Heniochus chrysostomus

Pennant Bannerfish

Heniochus monoceros

Masked Bannerfish

Heniochus varius

Humphead Bannerfish

Bicolor Angel

Coral Beauty

Pearly-scaled Angel

Regal Angelfish

Barrier Reef Anemonefish

Three-spot Dascyllus

Arc-eye Hawkfish

Blackside Hawkfish

Black-backed Wrasse

Bodianus axillaris

Coral Hogfish

Coris gaimard

Gaimard's Wrasse

Cleaner Wrasse

Labroides pectoralis

Breastspot Cleaner Wrasse

Thalassoma amblycephalum

Two-tone Wrasse

Thalassoma lunare

Moon Wrasse

Yellow Moon Wrasse

Acanthurus nigrofuscus

Dusky Surgeon

Acanthurus pyroferus

Mimic Surgeonfish

Orangespine Unicornfish

Naso unicornis

Blue-Spine Unicornfish

Zebrasoma scopas

Brown Sailfin Tang

Moorish Idol

Balistapus undulatus

Orange-lined Triggerfish

Ostracion meleagris

Black Boxfish

Whitetip Reef Shark

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon Coolpix 4500

Housing

Ikelite 6186

Strobe

Ikelite SubStrobe DS-50

Photographs

Depth information, where present, indicates the depth of the camera when the photograph was taken and can be used to approximate the depth of the subject.

Nephtheid soft coral, possibly Dendronephthea sp. 20.5 m.
 

Soft coral, Sarcophyton sp. 18.5 m.
 

Soft coral, Sinularia sp. 18.8 m.
 

Fungiid. 19.4 m.
 

Fungiids. 19.1 m.
 

Bubble coral, Plerogyra sinuosa. 16.4 m.
 

Algae. 13.1 m.
 

Seriatopora hystrix. 13 m.
 

Three spot damsels, Dacyllus trimaculatus. in multiple Stichodactyla mertensii,. 15.3 m.
 

Turbinaria reniformis with Acropora sp. and crinoid. 12.8 m.
 

Trumpetfish, Aulostomus chinensis, with Pocillopora verrucosa, bottom left, and Sinularia sp., top right. 12.6 m.
 

Moorish idol, Zanclus cornutus. 12.9 m.
 

Saddled butterflyfish, Chaetodon ephippium. 13.3 m.
 

Reef scene. 13.7 m.
 

Reef scene. 13.1 m.
 

Stylophora pistillata with Acropora sp. and Porites sp. colonies. 13.9 m